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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1863. 



"Instructions for Heavy Artillery," prepared 

 by a board of officers, and " Hand-Book of Ar- 

 tillery for the Service of the U. S.," by Col. 

 Joseph Roberts. The reports of commanders, 

 or of particular arms qf the service, and trea- 

 tises on military science, constitute another 

 branch of the military literature of the day. 

 Thus we have: "Report of the Engineer and 

 Artillery Operations of the Army of the Poto- 

 mac," by Gens. W. F. Barry and J. G. Bar- 

 nard ; Major-Gen. Pope's " Report of his Vir- 

 ginia Campaign," with plans; Major-General 

 Rosecrans's "Report of the Battle of Stone 

 River ; " " Annals of the Army of the Cum- 

 berland," by an officer ; " Temporary Fortifica- 

 tions Prepared for the Naval Service," by Ed- 

 ward B.irrett ; " Practical Strategy as Illus- 

 trated by the Achievements of the Austrian 

 Field Marshal Traun," by J. Watts De Peyster ; 

 " Daring and Suffering ; a History of the Great 

 Railroad Adventure," by Lieut. Wm. Pittenger ; 

 Brig.-Gen. G. W. Cullum's " System of Military 

 Bridges in use in the U. S. Army ; " Surgeon- 

 General William A. Hammond's "Treatise on 

 Hygiene, with special reference to Military Ser-. 

 vice;" "Cavalry, its History, Management, 

 and Uses in War," by J.Romer, LL.D. ; "The 

 Campaigns of 1862 and 1863," by Emil Schalk; 

 " Summary of the Art of War," by Emil Schalk ; 

 " Elements of Military Art and History," by 

 Duparcq; "Official Report of the U. S. Engi- 

 neer Department, of the Siege and Reduction 

 of Fort Pulaski, Ga.," by Q. A. Gillmore, Brig.- 

 Gen. U. S. V. ; " On Military and Camp Hos- 

 pitals, and the Health of Troops in the Field," 

 by Drs. Baudens and Hough. Among the other 

 books of reference and convenience for the 

 military man, are: "A Military Dictionary^" 

 by Col. II. L. Scott, revised to meet the emer- 

 gencies of the times ; " The Soldier's Book," a 

 convenient pocket memorandum, contrived by 

 Capt. R. N. Scott; "The Ready Calculator, or 

 Regimental Pay Table," &c., by Major-Gen. 

 Webb; "Table of Monthly and Annual Pay, 

 Tax, and Organization of the Army of the U. 

 S.," by Major Henry Fpote ; "Manual for Quar- 

 termasters and Commissaries," by Major R. F. 

 Hunter; "Catalogue of the Army Medical Mu- 

 seum ; " " The Army Register ; " " The Naval 

 Register;" "The Alphabetical Army Regis- 

 ter," and " The Army and Navy Almanac and 

 Washington Military Directory, for 1863." 



In history, the greatest interest has centred 

 in historical sketches of the existing war. The 

 number of these has continued to increase, and 

 many of those announced the previous year 

 have appeared, and have met with a large 

 sale. The first volume of " The History of 

 the Civil War in America," by John S. C. 

 Abbott, appeared in the spring of 1863. The 

 first volume of "The Great Rebellion; a His- 

 tory of the Civil War in the United States," by 

 J. T. Headley, was issued about the same time. 

 The second volume of Thomas P. Kettell's 

 "History of the Rebellion," appeared in the 

 autumn ; as did also the second volume of " The 



History, Civil, Political, ami Military, of the 

 Southern Rebellion, from its Incipient Stages to 

 its Close," by O. J. Victor. The first volume 

 of other histories of the war, by Mrs. Ann S. 

 Stephens, J. G. Kennedy, E. G:. Stork e, Samuel 



M. Schmucker, LL.D., Blake, C. Edwards 



Lester, and Lorenzo H. Whitney, have also ap- 

 peared, and most of them possessing a fair share 

 of merit, have had a large sale. Mr. R. S. 

 Fisher, and Mr. Horace E. Dresser, both well 

 known statisticians, have each published vol- 

 umes of the events of the rebellion ; Mr. Fish- 

 er's being in chronological, and Mr. Dresser's 

 in alphabetical order. Mr. Fisher's is accom- 

 panied with excellent maps. There have also 

 been a considerable number of serial histories 

 of the war issued in monthly, semi-, and bi- 

 monthly numbers. Among these are W. A. 

 Craft's " The Southern Rebellion ; " Evert A. 

 Duyckinck's " History of the War for the 

 Union, Civil, Military, and Naval ; " Frank 

 Leslie's "Pictorial History of the War," edited 

 at first by E. G. Squier'; Harper's "Pic- 

 torial History of the Great Rebellion," edited 

 by Richard Grant White ; Dr. Robert Tomes's 

 "The War with the South;" and we might 

 add to these Frank Moore's "Rebellion Re- 

 cord," which has reached, during the year, 

 the completion of its sixth volume. Mr. 

 Moore has also issued six numbers of a serial 

 "Companion to the Rebellion Record," giving 

 valuable narratives and official documents illus- 

 trative of the war. Among those who have 

 announced as- speedily forthcoming, histories 

 of the war, are Horace Greeley, of the New 

 York "Tribune," and Joshua R. Giddings, of 

 Ohio. Two volumes of a " Southern History 

 of the War," by E. A. Pollard, editor of the 

 Richmond "Examiner," have also appeared, 

 and also two volumes of the "Southern Official 

 Accounts of Battles," answering in part to the 

 " Rebellion Record." 



Beside these more extended histories of the 

 war, there have been a considerable number 

 of narratives of portions of the different cam- 

 paigns published : some of them by American 

 officers who had participated in them ; others 

 by foreign officers who had either been sent to 

 this country to observe the military operations, 

 by their governments or by newspapers who 

 desired to have correspondents with the armies, 

 or had joined one or the other army volunta- 

 rily. Of the first class were Dr. A. L. Castle- 

 man's " Army of the Potomac ; Behind the 

 Scenes ;" W. D. Bickhnm's " Rosecrans' Cam. 

 paign with the Army of the Cumberland ; " 

 "The Bivouac and the Battle Field," by Capt.. 

 Geo. F. Noyes; "The Story of the Guard: a 

 Chronicle of the War," by Jessie Benton Fre- 

 mont. (This is also published in German.) The 

 " Color Guard," by Rev. James Hosmer ; " The 

 Whip, Hoe and Sword, or the Gulf Department 

 in 1863 ; " by Rev. George II. Hepworth ; " The 

 Peninsula Campaign in Virginia," by Rev. J. J. 

 Marks ; "Sketches of the War," by Capt. C. C. 

 Nott ; " Beyond the Lines, or a Yankee Prison- 



